COERLL Team

COERLL Staff

Carl Blyth

Director, COERLL

Carl Blyth is the Director of the Center of Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL) and Associate Professor of French Linguistics in the Department of French and Italian. He has held several administrative positions prior to COERLL: Coordinator of Lower Division French (1993-2002), Acting Director of Technology, Literacy and Culture (2001-2002), and Director/Asst Director of the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France. He has worked with colleagues on an online reference grammar of French (Tex's French Grammar), and a multimedia-based first year French program (Français interactif).

Betsy Brown

Events Manager

Betsy Brown, Events Manager, is Senior Program Coordinator for the Texas Language Center. She oversees logistics for COERLL’s events, including registration and payment. She also organizes event data for federal reporting.

Nathalie Steinfeld Childre

Publications Manager / Web Developer

Nathalie Steinfeld is the Publications Manager/ Web Developer for COERLL. She has taken over the maintenance and deployments of all COERLL projects after she joined the team in 2008. She is a graduate of Texas State Univesity, San Marcos with a major in Fine Arts and a minor in Computer Science. Previously to moving to Austin, Nathalie studied art history at the University of Zürich and completed an art program at the local art academy. She then graduated with degrees in art history and computer science. She has a passion for art, languages, and cultural studies and creates tailored websites and tools that enhance the student's online experience with foreign languages and culture.

Sarah Sweeney

Project Coordinator

Sarah Sweeney is the Project Coordinator for COERLL. She holds degrees in French and Global Communications. She enjoys learning and teaching languages and has worked on marketing, communications, education, and online projects in various fields.